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"[i] was basically shooed into AA." Who by? Not by AA, I'm guessing?
"Then after about 3 months, I came under enormous pressure to believe in god (and I mean serious pressure)." From? Was it all alcoholics, a few, the organisation? Certainly you wouldn't have from me because I am an agnostic and seven years sober. My agnosticism - which I speak openly about in meetings - has never posed me a problem. If anyone takes issue with it I just avoid them, the same way as I ignore idiots outside the Fellowship.
"You wouldn't believe the amount of pressure I came under to stay" - a lot of us have seen people we like "go back out there" and die. Perhaps your local AAs were heavy handed, but is there any chance at all that it was out of concern for you rather than cultism?
"all they do is to draw in vulnerable people" - horseshit. Did they draw you in, or were you (as you imply) sent by loved ones or medical professionals?
"They actively advocate against employment and relationships" - horseshit. They advise against entering new relationships in the early part of sobriety. Many who ignore this advice regret doing so because they often don't know who they are without adrink and it is a poor idea to drag someone else into that. But I have NEVER, in eight years' membership, heard anyone advocate against work or against staying in established relationships where there are no other problems.
"AA creates their cult by trying to make its members believe that they are somehow different from the rest of the world, and that only an AA member will really understand you." Inaccurate. A lot of alcoholics feel that only another alcoholic really understands them. However, as this thread alone proves, not all alcoholics are in AA, or even sober.
"As the average AA member (especially early in their AA career) only associates with other AA members" - horseshit. Even members who go to a meeting a day (which is by no means all of us) they are spending 90 minutes in AA rooms and 14 and a half hours in the real world. Also, in my own experience, my AA friends and my outside friends are two very distinct groups. I do not think I am rare in this respect.
"their protestations that unless you attend 3 meetings a week and abstain from Alcohol for life then you will die" - I have never heard any such protestation.
"I was that desperate." "I am absolutely furious with the cult that is AA" - WHY? What have they done to you that's so bad? You didn't like it, you left. Supposing they did nag you to stay - did they bar the door? Have they harrassed you since? You were desperate, they helped you, you didn't want their help, you moved on. Furious? Fuck me, I'd hate to see you when someone's actually nasty to you.
Last but not least, are you willing to concede that your experience of AA is just that - your experience - andnot really to be taken generally?
Me personally, one of the things I have learnt in AA is indeed only to talk from my own experience and make it clear that that is what I'm doing. I find it works well in life.